Monday, November 21, 2011

GDP higher than $1.5 trillion? No aid for you

U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon. Photo: Bucshon's Flickr page

House Resolution 3488 would ban foreign assistance to countries with a gross domestic product of $1.5 trillion or more.
Cuba is safe. Its GDP was $114.1 billion in 2010, according to the CIA's World Factbook.
The bill's sponsor is Larry Bucshon, a heart surgeon-turned congressman in Indiana.